Clothes-line support



(No Model.)

W. R. HANRETTY.

CLOTHES LINE SUPPORT.

No. 592,969. Patented Nov. 2, 1897.

WITNESS INVENTOH UNITED STATES PATENT @rrrcn.

WILLIAM RICHARD I-IANRETTY, OF NEVVBURG, NElV YORK.

CLOTH ES-LINE SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,969, dated November 2, 1897.

7 Application filed September 4, 1896- fierial No. 604,869. (No modeld To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LW'ILLIAM RICHARD HAN- BETTY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newburg, in the county of Orange and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Line Supports, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof, in which similar numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts wherever found throughout both views.

The invention relates to supports for clothes-lines and the object thereof is to provide an improved device or devices for this purpose which may be used to support a clothes-line adjacent to a window and for many other and similar purposes.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawings form a part, in which Figure 1 is a plan View showing the method of operating my improved supports; and Fig. 2, a side view of one of said supports, a number of devices of this kind being employed.

In the drawings forming part of this specification I have shown at 5 a section of the wall of the building, and at 6 a window-opening formed therein, and at any suitable distance from said building is a post or other support 7, and in the practice of my invention I connect my improved support or supports with said building, or the wall thereof, and said post, as shown in Fig. 1.

The device or devices which I employ consist of a bar 8, which is pointed and screwthreaded at one end, as shown at 9, and preferably provided at the end of the screw-thread with a collar 10, and the opposite end of said bar is provided with a yoke the sides of which project at an angle from the bar, as clearly shown at 12 and 13, and the angle of projection of the sides 12 and 13 of the yoke may be fixed, as desired, in the manufacture'of the device, the angle preferred being about fortyfive degrees.

Mounted in the ends of the sides 12 and 13 of the yoke is a rod l i, provided with a head, on which rod is mounted a grooved roller 15,

and the end of the rod 14, which is passed through the separate sides of the yoke, is screw-threaded and preferably provided with two nuts 16, one of which is placed between the sides of the yoke, and between the grooved roller 15 and the adjacent side of the yoke is a washer 17. In practice one of these devices is connected with the wall 5 at each side of the window, and preferably at orvnear the lower part thereof, and this connection is made in such a manner that the rollers 15 other of the devices is connected with the post 7 in the same manner, and a line 18 is passed around the rollers 15, as clearly shown in Fig. 1, and by means of the angle at which said rollers 15 are held the line will be securely held in position and will not slip off from or become accidentally disconnected from said rollers, and it will also be observed that by reason of the method of mounting the line or the supports thereof the entire line may be employed for supporting clothes or other articles, and by reason of the position of the supports said line may be easily pulled around thereon, so as to bring all parts thereof adjacent to the window.

My improved support is simple in construction and operation and perfectly adapted to accomplish the result for which it is intended.

It will be observed that the angle between the rod 14, carrying the roller, and the bar 8' of the support is an acute angle, this result being accomplished by the fact that the sides 12 and 13 of yoke 11 are held at an angle to said bar 8.

Having fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent A support for lines, consisting of a bar provided near one end with a shoulder or collar, the extremity of said bar beyond the collar being pointed and screw-threaded, the opposite end of said bar being bifurcated and bent at an angle thereto, a rod 14: having at one end a head and having its other end screwthreaded and passed through perforations in the forks of the bar 8, said rod 14 extending at right angles to said forks, nuts screwing project downwardly and inwardly, and anon the threaded portion of the rod in position enee of the subscribing witnesses, this 1st day to bear on each fork and a grooved roller of September, A. D. 1896.

mounted on the projeetin end of the rod 14 T between the head thereof a iid one of the forks, WILLIAM RICHARD HMREMY 5 substantially as shown and described. Witnesses:

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as JOHN B. OORWIN,

my invention I have signed my name, in pres- LOUIS S. STERRIT. 

